In this Best Mac Tip I’ll be showing you how to fine-tune aspects of the Notification Center in Mac OS X. For example, we’ll look at how to turn off birthday notifications which come through from the OS X Facebook integration.

Ever wanted to insert the command symbol into text you’re writing up? That command symbol is this one: ⌘ Where’s it hiding and how to we access it? Oddly Apple has made it increasing obscure to find. Here’s how to find it on OS X Mountain Lion...

Picasa 3.9.x allows us to embed the face recognition data into an XMP tag on our photos. At long last. However, Google in their wisdom decided to not make this retroactive. Meaning all your existing photos will NOT have the face data embeded even when this feature is activated. Only new photos will get the desired embedding. What follows is detailed instructions on how I (and many other people) have embedded the face recognition tags into existing photos.

Here’s a relatively simple tip which you may find useful. You may already know that in Finder you can jump directly to a known folder path by hitting Command-Shift-F, and then paste or type in the path (something like /Users/MyName/Library/Folderx for example)....

If you use File Labels in OS X Finder it’s handy to be able to find the files you label. It can be done with a Saved Search (using a Smart Folder) or it can be done on the spot using Spotlight. To do a search on the spot (no pun intended) just type...